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Posted on 08/20/2025 4:26:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It turns out many Americans aren’t great at identifying which personal decisions contribute most to climate change.
A study recently published found that when asked to rank actions, such as swapping a car that uses gasoline for an electric one, carpooling or reducing food waste, participants weren’t very accurate when assessing how much those actions contributed to climate change.
The top three individual actions that help the climate, including avoiding plane flights, choosing not to get a dog and using renewable electricity, were also the three that participants underestimated the most. Meanwhile, the lowest-impact actions were changing to more efficient appliances and swapping out light bulbs, recycling, and using less energy on washing clothes. Those were three of the top four overestimated actions in the report.
Dogs are big meat eaters, and meat is a significant contributor to climate change. That is because many of the farm animals, which will become food, release methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. Since trees absorb carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, cutting them to then raise cattle is a double whammy.
“People just don’t associate pets with carbon emissions. That link is not clear in people’s minds,” Zhao said.
Not all pets are the same, however. Zhao owns a dog and three rabbits.
“I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore,” she said.
The owner of a meat-eating pet can lower their impact by looking for food made from sources other than beef. Zhao, for example, tries to minimize her dog’s carbon footprint by feeding her less carbon-intensive protein sources, including seafood and turkey.
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The leftists continue their war against dogs. ...
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True for the Chinese communists, but, here in America, leftists LOVE their pets. In leftist neighborhoods, you can even see aging feminists and homosexuals pushing their sick dogs in baby carriages. They’d rather legislate people out of their “carbon footprints” than ditch their pets.
Well said and the Left counts on that. They know that the majority of good Americans can’t wrap their heads around how evil they are because we just don’t think the way the Left thinks. The Left has used that weakness to their advantage for years.
Where does AP get these idiots.
Caleigh Wells can piss off.
Hey Zhao, I’ll pass on the dogs, but 100 bunnies? I’ll take them. Give me a week to buy a new freezer though.
Journalism schools cranks out these creeps by the thousands every year.
Fortunately most of them are unemployed—or have podcasts that nobody but friends and family hear.
Not breeding, a Diet of Worms, and committing suicide are probably the recommended choices, so that elites can waste more.
I wonder her position on immigration, especially from portions of Africa experiencing a lack of protein rich sources of food. Immigrants who move WILL consume more western diets such as beef.
No matter how you cut it, using her logic, that would be a net negative to the climate.
I assume she would be pro-immigration... yet is anti-dog.
Dogs are loyal to their owners; owners loyal to their dogs. Can’t have that loyalty compete with total loyalty to a bureaucratic state...
It’s a reference to there have been daily anti-dog stories by the media.
It’s their new jihad. No dogs.
But I agree with you they’ll have problems selling this one.
From the Ivy League, of course.
Preconditioned morons with a proven track record of stupidity by paying $400,000 for a mediocre education that results in a $60,000/year job.
I was away for a couple of days. My neighbor took care of my dogs. Upon return the back gate was open. Whoever opened it fled. My dogs did their job of protection. They are actually gentle but bark like hell at strangers. Good dogs.
“I think they just want people to be miserable, in general.”
No, they actually prefer people gone!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
I agree.
They do not reproduce here, so they need to import lefties from abroad.
It is crazy, to be so dedicated to Mother Earth, that you forfeit having your own family! In my mind, these are the most extreme people. Radical Extremists!
Another moronic article from idiots.
THOSE BUNNIES ARE NOT VERY GOOD SECURITY.
MY DOG TATTLES TO ME ABOUT EVERYTHING
Was trying to decide...
Pyrenees, or Newfie?
Now I know!
Newfie it is
Exactly, next thing ya know they’ll be attacking our planet with sun blockers and dangerous chemicals because they lie about carbs. Oh wait, that’s what they ARE doing.
3 dogs, 4 cats and 37 whitetail deer here.
“Come and take them”.
I have neighbors with those breeds. Both really nice dogs. The Pyr is the guard dog of the two but when the Newfie barks, that’s all he has to do.
Uh...what?
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